e-GMAT Online Intensive Reviews

E-gmat helped me in understanding the basics of Verbal and Quant. The course is very informative and the videos help you explain every topic. Scholaranium is the best tool to judge your performance. It helps you in making various types of quiz and identify your weak areas. Overall the experience was satisfactory.
Additionally the Rajat and Payal videos on youtube regarding the gmat guidelines and specific section analysis is really helpful. The material is overall on the tougher side but that helps you enable to deal with good gmat score successfully. Please do use the verbal section of E-gmat, the approach used is very useful in exam scenarios.

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I scored 730 in my first GMAT attempt with a Q50 and V39 split. I managed to get a 7/8 in the IR section. I used the E-GMAT online course to study the Verbal and the IR sections of the GMAT exam.

The SC and CR files were the most helpful resources in the verbal module. They made the answer analysis almost automatic. The CR pre-thinking process and the SC meaning-based approach are hands down the real winners of the E-GMAT Verbal course. The Verbal Scholarium section has very good practice questions and the Sigma-X mocks help you evaluate and improve your GMAT score. Their analytics tool is really amazing at tracking your progress. It identifies weak areas and gives good feedback. The IR section helps with some good practice GMAT styled IR questions. Overall, the E-GMAT online course provides you with the appropriate study material, all in one place, required to crack the GMAT exam and get into the top 5percentile. I would recommend the E-GMAT online course to every serious test taker who aims to get a score higher than 720 in their first attempt. This course helps boost your verbal score which is the deal-breaker for a good GMAT score.

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It's my third go at GMAT and I've finally got a score, which falls in my desired bracket. I've scored a 640(Q48 V30) and 670(Q50 V29) in my previous two attempts. I just couldn't fathom my scores, because I did considerably well on the official GMAT mocks. But after a thorough analysis of my ESRs, I understood that the approach I had is not enough to fetch me high scores. After taking around 4 months of break, I again started planning for my third attempt. That's when I've decided to purchase e-gmat's online course.

Some of the best things I've learned while using the e-gmat course:

1. Meaning based approach for solving Sentence Correction problems - Knowing in our mind that meaning is an important aspect in SC while solving the questions is one thing and having an approach which encapsulates that step and makes it a second nature while solving the questions is another thing. I have missed this trick in both of my previous attempts. e-gmat does an amazing job in this aspect and the questions in scholaranium polish our skills in using this approach.

2. Visualisation and Proper understanding of the conclusion for answering Critical Reasoning Questions - I cannot stress this enough. Even if pre-thinking is not feasible for each and every question, if we can visualise the passage well and have a proper understanding of the conclusion, it will open doors to the correct answer.

3. Analytics provided by Scholaranium - Two aspects standout the most with scholaranium. The detailed analysis provided for all the practise you do and the quality of the questions. If you don't have a proper approach, then the questions you solve in scholaranium will let you know that.

4. Mocks - (Note: Unpopular opinion incoming) I am not a huge fan of the official mocks. In my view, the Sigma-X mocks are more closer to the actual exam than the 6 official mocks. I think the official mocks can only get you around maybe 670/680 in the actual exam. I've scored 730-750 in my official mocks, only to score 640 and 670 in both my attempts. But my sigma-X mock scores are around 720-750, which more or less is same as my actual score. The insights you get after the exam will definitely help you identify the weak areas you have and thus make your preparation efficient.

5. LMP - Having a mentor who can guide you down the right path would definitely help you after those 2 horrific experiences. I gotta thank DJ here. He definitely knows what works for a student, and he is quite fast in responding to the mails😌.

Because I am doing well at quant, I didn't do much of the quant courses and focused my preparation mostly on verbal. But the quant quizzes are definitely challenging. Taking a quant quiz once in three days during the prep would definitely keep up your skill-level.

I would like to thank DJ for his efforts and his consistent support. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn't even have the courage to book my exam, thank you for that😄. All in all, I would recommend this course for someone who just hates grammatical-fancy-jargons.

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Hi Friends,

I had stumbled upon e–GMAT course on GMAT club during my early days of GMAT preparation. There were a lot of good reviews about the course and they looked genuine. Soon I attended a free workshop organised by them wherein they discussed about the GMAT straight strategy on how to score above 700.

Although I was apprehensive about an online course as I had never attended an online course but the Covid -19 situation made it the right choice for me. I had a zoom call with e-Gmat team about the various questions that I had regarding the course and GMAT. Once all my questions were answered satisfactorily , I decided to enroll for the course. Now having achieved a GMAT score of 700 I can say it was indeed the right decision for me to invest my time and money In the E – GMAT preparation course.

Based on my experience, some of the salient features of the e– GMAT are:

1. Strong verbal GMAT course: The e– GMAT is already known for its fabled verbal course. It is highly effective covers everything that one needs to know and follows an easy approach towards learning. The concepts like breaking down of an argument into premises , counter premises , conclusion et cetera and the pre- thinking concepts turn out to be very useful in the CR. The concept of active reading where you are immersed into the argument or the passage helps not just in critical reasoning but also in the reading comprehension section.
2. Greatly improved GMAT quant: The e– GMAT quant course wasn’t as good its verbal course when I had just enrolled but in the last few months the course has improved substantially. It is so comprehensive and elaborative that even a student who is not a pro in mathematics will be able to solve GMAT problems easily once he/she understands the concepts and the tips and tricks taught in the Quant course . it is the best improvement done in the last few months.
3. Freedom and flexibility: the online course comes with the benefits of freedom to learn anywhere and the flexibility to learn as per one’s own convenience. This is specially true for working professionals like me. The fact that the course is module-based makes it easy to start off from the point you last left.
4. Scholaranium : One of my favourite part of this course is scholaranium which has a vast collection of GMAT like questions for that additional practice one needs to master various question types and concepts. It also allows one to customise questions based on topics and difficulty levels.
5. Sigma – X mock tests: these tests are very similar to actual GMAT tests in this course you get are generally a fair representation of your likely GMAT score. I generally scored around 720–730 in my Sigma X mock tests and 700 in GMAT.
6. Prompt response from e-GMAT team: during the entire course the eGmat team was very proactive and quick to reply to any doubts about the course, individual questions or about the strategy to improve my performance. Generally the team replies within 24 hours of receiving the mail from you so it helps because you can keep getting course correction whenever you need and the response is prompt.

Finally, I would like to recommend all the prospective GMAT takers that e–GMAT offers a comprehensive, effective and flexible way to learn and master your GMAT prep. Please attend their free webinar or zoom call before you buy any online prep course. My only suggestion is to be calm and confident while taking the test as it does play an important role in your performance. E – GMAT provides all there is to learn about GMAT and my 30 points dropped from SigmaX score is primarily attributable to the exam centre stress. So please be calm, prepare well and give your best shot.

Good luck to everyone!

Regards
MSR

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After a few months of unstructured prep and no improvements or understanding of my strengths and weaknesses, I came across the one of the eGMAT debriefs on youtube. After going through a few debriefs, I realised that the key component of GMAT prep is structure. While I had initially signed up for eGMAT just to add structure to my prep, the course offered so much more. A lot of which I was totally unaware of.
Key Strength:
I want to start with the strongest suite of the eGMAT course. The Sentence Correction module. It is hands down the best out there with no close second. The SC module is curated so beautifully to get you an in-depth understanding of the concepts of sentence correction while keeping you engaged. I remember when I started the SC module, I spent about 22 hours on it in the first week without even realising it. While a lot of GMAT courses get carried away from the grammar aspect of SC, eGMAT, with its meaning based approach, does a very good job of reminding the students that the verbal section on GMAT is called Verbal REASONING and not GRAMMAR.
Without exaggerating even one bit, It is THE BEST course out there and if you are someone who is struggling with sentence correction, take a leap of faith with eGMAT and you will not regret it one bit.

The CR module, eGMAT does a very good job of making the students go through the Master Comprehension module before delving into the details of the CR and RC course. This acquired skill of UNDERSTANDING what you're reading combined with the eGMAT Pre Thinking approach helped with the really tough CR questions.
The RC course, again my biggest weakness on RC was skimming without understanding the meaning of what I read, The eGMAT application files pushed me to maintain the balance between skimming and over reading, thus helping me save time and improve accuracy on RCs.

The Quant course, being an Engineer, Quant was my strength on the test but after a few mocks, I realised that there were certain conceptual gaps in my preparation. The eGMAT course definitely helped with that. The overall level of eGMAT quant is higher than the actual test so it prepares you for the tougher questions.

Moving on to the strongest suite for TEST READINESS out there, Scholaranium 2.0 with its flexibility to create custom quizzes and its data backed insights is a beautiful platform to improve your ability to test yourself. The quality of explanation for each right as well as wrong answer just add to the perks of the platform.

Sigma X Mocks, On a personal note, I feel the sigma X mocks are the right representation of the actual test, I would even go on to say that the official mocks are a bit easier than the actual exam. The quality of questions on the Sigma X mocks along with the adaptive algorithm do a very good job at simulating the test taking experience.
Having said that, in my GMAT journey the key has been the support that I have received from eGMAT, their Last Mile program gets you in touch with brilliant mentors like Dhananjay (can't thank him enough) who help you with hyper specific feedback, personalised improvement plans and support to just help you maximise your potential on test day.
On that note, I would say my experience with eGMAT was nothing short of amazing and I would strongly recommend every test taker out there to go for the course.

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After scoring a disappointing 610 (Q47V27) on my first attempt, I identified 3 key areas on which I had to work on to improve my GMAT score.

1) Verbal, as I scored very low on it and I knew I was having conceptual gaps.
2) Speed, I was not able to finish any of the sections and simply had to guess the last 3-4 questions in each section.
3) Stamina, I was exhausted halfway through the verbal section which was my second section.

To overcome the above, I knew I had to give mock tests and need to get a verbal course,

I did my research and e-gmat stood out when it came to verbal preparation, so I planned to enrolled to the Verbal course of e-gmat, however, I ended up enrolling to the entire course (Verbal +Quant) after I heard about the scholaranium section of e-gmat because I knew I had to practice quant with time limits setup.

It turned out to be quite a good decision as I was able to increase my score by 80 points to 690 (Q47V39) with a massive improvement of 12 points in the verbal section.

Using e-gmat, I attacked the 3 key areas I had identified.

1) Verbal: The modules for SC and CR are exceptional, they really helped in understanding the key concepts which I was missing. In terms of RC, I was able to grasp some new concepts in it, however not as much as in the SC and CR section. For RC, I think it's just about being a good reader, so I just worked on improving my reading skills by reading random articles and practicing on E-Gmat scholaranium. The verbal course is very well structured overall, there are concepts videos, quizzes, application quizzes, cementing quizzes and the scholaranium, also the explanation for every question is very thorough. I followed the approach that e-gmat team guided me with and it helped me a lot.

2) Speed: From my perspective, the best and most powerful thing about e-gmat is the scholaranium, this tool is a blessing. I used scholaranium to get my timing right, in the scholaranium you can create your custom quiz and give short exams setting up a timing limit, I really found it very very helpful, not only it allowed me to practice and get my timing right but also it allowed me to give quick short exams in between my busy work schedule. They have a huge pool of questions with different difficulty levels, I found the questions slightly more difficult than what I got in actual gmat which was perfect as it made the Gmat test look slightly easier. The dashboard of scholaranium was also very helpful, I was able to identify my weaknesses using it and work on them.

3) Stamina: I got access to 6 adaptive tests which helped me work on my stamina, again the adaptive tests were slightly more difficult than the actual gmat, the highest i scored on e-gmat mock test was 670, on the official gmat mock test i had scored 710 and on the test day I scored 690.

Overall, I am very thankful to the e-gmat team for providing support wherever required, I asked numerous questions on different modules which e-gmat experts replied to and helped me clarify my doubts.

If you are someone who is looking to improve on verbal and who is looking for some practice to improve speed and stamina, I would strongly recommend e-gmat, their verbal course as well as scholaranium has really helped me and I hope it will help you too.

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E-GMAT exceeded my expectations by far. I focused on verbal part of the course to build my sentence correction skills. The course is very student friendly. The explanation of the concepts in videos is helpful to develop a foundation necessary for great verbal score. The questions are also very well formatted and very close to the questions in actual exam. I reviewed the entire sentence correction twice and every time I walked away with something new in terms of learning. I was able to identify my knowledge gap and build on the skills that were lacking. I did questions from algebra part of quant and enjoyed doing those questions too. I got personalized learning plan because I did not have enough time. That personalized plan identified my weaknesses and I was able to correct them to get to my goal score. I am very glad that I did the course. I wold highly recommend the course to anyone preparing for GMAT.

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I came across E-GMAT’s course when I was struggling with CR with just a week to go for my first GMAT attempt. I got to attend a free webinar and I really loved the use of pre-thinking, a concept that I hadn’t come across before. My CR score immediately improved in just 2 days. Unfortunately, I had other skill gaps and ended up scoring only 640(Q44 V34) in my first attempt at GMAT. My prep had been very random, without any structure and I wasn't able to figure out what was going wrong and I decided to give E-GMAT a shot because I liked the way the course was structured.

Within a month of using the platform to learn and practise questions my score improved to 700 and then to 720 in my mocks and stayed there for a while. However, things didn’t go well in my second attempt too as I wasn’t mentally prepared to take the test then and I got a 660 (Q48 V33). My third attempt was just 16 days after this attempt and I was completely down but I religiously followed the strategy laid out by DJ (E-GMAT Mentor). Thankfully, everything went well and I got a 700 (Q49 V35).

Some aspects of the course that really worked for me –

# The Verbal section of the course is really good. E-GMAT emphasizes on the importance of understanding the right approach to solve questions. Whether it is the meaning-based approach in SC or pre-thinking in CR, once you understand and master the approach, the entire process of solving Verbal questions becomes more enjoyable and effective!

# One thing that I loved about their Verbal course was that it became easy to understand why the wrong answer choices were wrong. Every question and answer choice had a detailed explanation and understanding the same made it a lot easier to pick the right answer even though it might seem wrong at first. This is particularly useful when you are stuck with the last two choices, especially in 700-level questions.

# The Quant section was detailed and covered almost all the important topics with an emphasis on conceptual clarity. There are multiple quizzes in every single topic that when you finish a module you would have covered every possible type of question that could be asked and that too in a way that you become super comfortable with the topics. Again, detailed explanations for every question and answer choice helped me a lot as I needed that extra bit of understanding.
I would say that my quant score improved from 44 to 49 only because of the conceptual clarity and variety in terms of practise that I got from the course.

# My favourite part of E-GMAT is SCHOLARANIUM 2.0, their question bank with its precise analytics. It has a wide range of questions in every single topic and for each level of difficulty that enables you to get enough practise and also to get test-ready. It also has multiple types of quizzes with accurate analytics. Just observing the analytics provided there made me understand what kind of mistakes I was doing and what my weak areas were, time and again. It made my practise really easy and effective because I didn’t have to waste time on deciding what material to use, where to hunt for satisfactory explanations, analyse my error-types and weak areas - Scholaranium 2.0 was doing all of this for me. Just one thing here, make sure that you use it effectively – focus on quality over quantity.

# DJ's Mentorship - I am really thankful for the support that I got throughout my prep period from DJ (Mentor at E-GMAT). He would analyse each of my Sigma-X mocks and give a thorough de-brief of what went right and what went wrong. His suggestions and tips really made me effectively focus on areas that needed improvement. This is something I couldn’t figure out when I was prepping by myself. DJ’s support especially helped me push through the last leg when my score hit a plateau and I lost my motivation. When we figured out that I am not able to perform as effectively on the actual exam as on my mocks, he asked me a lot of questions and finally devised a strategy that would help me during the exam to stay more focused and guess what, it did!
DJ laid out weekly plans that were tailor made for my requirements and following these plans really helped break the frustrating plateau. It honestly helps to have someone guide you this way to inch towards your target score, in my opinion!

Overall, my experience with the course has been great! I used the course to the maximum extent possible and it honestly helped me finally get to 700.

If you are someone who is looking for good conceptual clarity , structure in your prep, a solid question bank with really good analytics, and constant support you can definitely consider E-GMAT.

All the very best :)

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Let me take you through my GMAT preparation journey.

I took my first GMAT attempt without entirely appreciating the depth of the ocean called GMAT and rather unsurprisingly I drowned without getting close to my target.

It was a proper jolt and I quickly realized that I needed help to get over the GMAT hurdle. Thankfully by that time GMAT Club was my trusted guide and going through the GMAT Club community, looking for members who did well on the GMAT and the resources they used, the name that kept popping up was that of e-GMAT.

So I reached out to e-GMAT and my first interaction with the team was the free e-GMAT one-on-one ESR review where I was blown away by the depth of insights that the mentor was able to derive from the ESR. I went ahead and booked my subscription to the e-GMAT platform on the same day.

Thankfully, the platform was all I could hope for and more. Not only did the coursework have a lot of depth, the ample amount of application files and practice files meant that I could cement a lot of the concepts in the first phase of preparation itself.

Talking of specific courses, in Verbal CR was always my Achilles heel and the e-GMAT concepts of pre-thinking and spending more time with the question stem, properly analysing and breaking down every part of it proved to be a gamechanger for me. In addition to this, in SC understanding the meaning-based approach gave me an extra weapon in my arsenal to go along with process of elimination to deal with SC questions with more confidence.

But the most crucial value addition of the e-GMAT platform is in the Scholaranium 2.0 section. From my experience, beyond a point, most people struggle to raise their score or get out of a rut that they are caught in because they aren't able to figure out where they are going wrong and this is because they are unable to perform structured and deep-rooted analysis of their mistakes. This is where Scholaranium 2.0 comes in handy and acts as a personal guide, walking you through every mistake, every block, every topic that needs further work. The interactive charts help you map out your ability improvement across sections and sub-sections as time progresses. It tells you which kind of questions are draining most of your time and how can you go about correcting them. It really makes life as a student very convenient and answers the what and how when it comes to making improvements in prep strategy.

Besides, what sets e-GMAT apart is how responsive the mentors and experts on the platform are in responding to student queries. In my personal experience, I have never had to wait for more than 24 hours to get a response to my queries, and just the mere knowledge that there are experts ready and willing to promptly respond to your doubts and queries leads to a much more relaxed and focused prep.

So to close the loop, I would highly recommend e-GMAT to anyone who is in the GMAT prep journey and is looking for a comprehensive platform to cater to all their prep needs.

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I was given told that e-gmat was the bible for GMAT verbal and it did not disappoint. Since I started my preparation with E-Gmat itself, my verbal concepts were fairly clear. The meaning based approach to sentence correction and the pre-thinking approach to CR questions proved to be an optimal technique to solve GMAT verbal questions.

I used the quant sections to brush up my maths since my undergrad course did not have a math component. It proved to be a boon for students looking to refresh their math concepts from scratch.

The best part though about the E-GMAT course was the scholaranium that provided insights into my mistakes and provide me actionable steps to improve my performance. I can't thank the E-GMAT enough for their constant encouragement and involvement to improve my score further.

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